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Poetry / An update of Nash’s “Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer”
This is a song not to celebrate a bank
It is no longer full of money and if you own its stock
you only now hear the wails as it tanks.
Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills,
which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills
that bankers took from their government bailout,
while angry taxpayers fumed and flailed about.
Congressional representative seem unconcerned by the question of who lives
in marble halls and who has a home no more to live in.
Banks foreclose on people who can’t pay off loans they were given.
Unscrupulous lenders sold uneducated people dreams.
The government encouraged lenders who said, life isn’t what it seems.
Banks bundled and sold credit derivatives; a manager of a hedge fund
now looks at his worthless assets, stunned.
Investors try, but can’t, sell their five bedroom condos.
Let’s decide not to give any more money to those
who made reckless decisions; most of us must live with the results
of the decisions we chose.
We should all observe one rule and woe betide the government official
who fails to heed it,
which is, you must never give any money to anybody unless
they really need it. Like a homeless family from New Orleans.
If we need banks then our country should own them. Why toss good money
after bad? Why should we trust the bankers’ schemes
to repay the money we loaned them? Let’s own the banks outright,and banish failed CEOs. Funny how they suppose the government’s just a piggy bank; they had better go get a real job, or marry a rich heiress. You’d think they’d be
embarrassed. We, the people, should take back the reins
of power, and break free from capitalism’s chains, which drag heavier and heavier
by the hour.
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NovemberDisaster reviewed Version 1 -
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In the beginning on line number 8 you should put “Congressional Representative (‘) s”.
“Let’s decide not to give any more money to those
who made reckless decisions; most of us must live with the results
of the decisions we chose.” I think that this should be revised as it is a mind boggler and I am sure can be worded better.
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We should all observe one rule and woe betide the government official
who fails to heed it,
which is, you must never give any money to anybody unless
they really need it. Like a homeless family from New Orleans.
If we need banks then our country should own them. Why toss good money
after bad? Why should we trust the bankers’ schemes”
It seems to me like this would have been better written as two stanzas, its to much rhyme for one.
I thought that it would have been a good piece however you got terribly sloppy in the end. I am sure that if you revised it and kept with a single rhyme scheme then it would be a really powerful poem that would speak a lot about what is wrong with the economy.
You did have a lot of good points though. I just think that you should take some time to sort them all out.
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DeanSky reviewed Version 1 -
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Isn’t it sad that the mass majority believe we are in the land of the free? I think we are more like paid slaves. I really enjoyed this piece. You should definately watch the movie Zietgiest. Good luck keep writing.
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